TDCM: Review of the "S" Composers

 

Listening Through The Dictionary of Composers and Their Music 

List, Stats, Curiosities of the "S" Composers

1. Camille Saint-Saëns
2. Aulis Sallinen
3. Giuseppe Sammartini
4. Pablo de Sarasate
5. Erik Satie
6. Alessandro Scarlatti
7. Domenico Scarlatti
8. Samuel Scheidt
9. Franz Schmidt
10. Florent Schmitt
11. Alfred Schnittke
12. Othmar Shoeck
13. Arnold Schoenberg
14. Franz Schreker
15. Franz Schubert
16. Gunther Schuller
17. William Schuman
18. Robert Schumann
19. Heinrich Schütz
20. Cyril Scott
21. Mátyás Seiber
22. Roger Sessions
23. Harold Shapero
24. Ralph Shapey
25. Rodion Shchedrin
26. Dmitri Shostakovich
27. Jean Sibelius
28. Elie Siegmeister
29. Robert Simpson
30. Christian Sinding
31. Niko Skalkottas
32. Alexander Scriabin
33. Bedřich Smetana
34. Ethel Smyth
35. Fernando Sor
36. Leo Sowerby
37. Louis Spohr
38. Gaspare Spontini
39. John Stainer
40. Johann Stamitz
41. Carl Stamitz
42. Charles Villiers Stanford
43. Robert Still
44. Karlheinz Stockhausen
45. Johann Strauss II
46. Richard Strauss
47. Igor Stravinsky
48. Josef Suk
49. Arthur Sullivan
50. Franz von Suppè
51. Jan Sweelinck
52. Karol Szymanowski

Nationalities

American 7
German 7
English 6
Russian 5
Austrian 5
Czech 3
French 3
Hungarian 2
Spanish 2
Finnish 2
Papalini 1
Irish 1
Lombard 1
Neapolitan 1
Swiss 1
Sicilian 1
Norwegian 1
Dutch 1
Greek 1
Polish 1

Earliest

Composer - Jan Sweelinck (1562-1621)
Composition - Scheidt's Tabulatura Nova III (1624)*

*Earliest dated composition

Latest
Composer - Auslin Sallinen (b. 1935)
Composition - Schuller's String Quartet (2014)

Total Compositions Sampled - 240

Top 10 Ranked "S" Composers

Ranked on a purely subjective personal enjoyment scale

Dmitri Shostakovich (10/10)

Russian, 1906-1975

Symphony No. 7 Leningrad

Richard Strauss (10/10)

German, 1864-1949

Alpine Symphony

Camille Saint-Saëns (10/10)

French, 1835-1921

Symphony No. 3

Jean Sibelius (10/10)

Finnish, 1865-1957

Symphony No. 2

Robert Schumann (10/10)

German, 1810-1856

Symphony No. 1 Spring

Bedřich Smetana (10/10)

Czech, 1824-1884

Ma Vlast

Franz Schubert (10/10)

Austrian, 1797-1828

Symphony No. 7 The Unfinished

Christian Sinding (10/10)

Norwegian, 1856-1941

Symphony No. 1

Igor Stravinsky (10/10)

Russian, 1882-1971

The Rite of Spring

Arthur Sullivan (10/10)

English, 1842-1900

The Moon and I